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New plan for bus stop move on Railroad Street comes with annual price tag of more than $20,000, legislator says

by Jul 24, 2017
Moving the bus stop on Railroad Street comes with a operating cost increase of between $20,000 and $30,000 per year, according to County Legislator Al Krupski, who says the county can fund by finding efficiencies — not a reduction in service.

Public transit advocate blasts plan to move bus stop from railroad station; officials now looking at other options

by Jul 10, 2017
Vince Taldone, a public transit advocate and board member of the Five Towns Rural Transit advocacy group, called plans to move the Railroad Avenue bus stop to Cedar Street “a poor transit planning decision” that is “nonsensical and ultimately cruel.”

Suffolk Closeup County should reverse wrongheaded move to cut already marginal public bus service

by Dec 4, 2016
The move by the county to cut public bus routes to help ease it fiscal mess is a big step backwards.